Dear readers,
You are cordially invited to two IDZ events in the coming weeks, both of which we are organizing together with a member agency. On 25 April, we will be visiting the brand agency wirDesign, and on 2 May, we will convene at feldfünf e.V. to hear from mattership.
Remember: If you would like to apply for the highest state award for ecological design, you can still participate in the German Ecodesign Award until mid-April. And our call for entries for the UX Design Awards—Autumn 2024 runs until 31 May!
We would particularly like to recommend the interview with a very special member of the month, our Chairman of the Board, Prof. Karsten Henze. Not to be missed!
Best regards
Your IDZ team
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IDZ Member of the Month
Prof. Karsten Henze
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Prof. Karsten Henze has been Chairman of the Board of the International Design Center Berlin (IDZ) since 2006. From 2001 to 2018, he worked at Deutsche Bahn as Head of CI/CD and Creation. Based in Group Marketing, he and his team were responsible for the Group‘s global image. Today, Prof. Karsten Henze works as a freelance management consultant in the design sector.
You can find a more detailed interview with him on the special page celebrating the 50th anniversary of the IDZ.
Karsten Henze's inspiration: Curiosity!
All contributions to our “Member of the Month” series can be found on the IDZ website!
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IDZ Event x wirDesign
Responsibility and Brand Performance
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Brigida Kempf and Silke Parnack, board members at wirDesign, show how their brand agency works successfully. The agency places responsibility at the heart of its actions, acts in accordance with ESG criteria, and is currently working on its common good balance sheet. It’s not just about being “good” or “sustainable” but constantly improving and being responsible—for the employees, the company, and the world—while achieving economic success.
Most of our members have this aspiration, so we are already looking forward to this impetus from the wirDesign cosmos and the subsequent collegial exchange over snacks and drinks.
The event will be in German.
IDZ Event at wirDesign
Berliner Straße 82, Kesselhaus | 10965 Berlin (Google Maps)
April 25, 2024
Admission from 6 pm, start 7 pm, networking & drinks: 8 - 9 pm
Participation is free of charge.
We ask for registration.
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German Ecodesign Award 2024
Last Call & Travelling Exhibition in Salzburg
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The deadline for participation in the German Ecodesign Award is approaching: until 15 April, companies of all industries and sizes, designers, students, and creative minds from all over Europe can apply online with their innovative services, sustainable concepts, and environmentally friendly and outstandingly designed products for the highest state award for ecological design in Germany!
The focus will also be on the nominees and award winners in 2023, as our traveling exhibition “Thinking ahead” starts its tour. The first stop opens on 17 April at the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences.
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UX Design Awards Autumn 2024
Meet the Jury
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The UX Design Awards - Autumn 2024 jury
The prestige and reputation of the UX Design Awards depend largely on the expertise and experience of our judges.
Seize the opportunity to have your outstanding work evaluated by these globally recognized experts - submit your UX projects by 31 May! All information on participation and the competition deadlines can be found on the UXDA website.
Enter like a Pro! Live Q&A session on 3 April
If you still have questions about the participation modalities, you should make a note of the live Q&A session on 3 April. The UXDA team will introduce you to the upcoming UX Design Awards - Autumn 2024 and give you insights into best practices for a successful submission.
Afterward, you will have the opportunity to ask questions. Participation is possible via LinkedIn and Zoom; registration links are here!
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InnoTrans 2024
Call for Speakers
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On 25 September, the International Design Forum (IDF) will once again be part of InnoTrans, the world's leading trade fair for mobility. This year, the focus will be on innovative interior concepts for urban and regional public transport.
As the organizers of this symposium, we invite experts from research, design, and business to submit relevant case studies by 30 April. Further information is available here on the IDZ website.
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IDZ Event x mattership
DESIGN INSIGHTS #3 E-Bike-City
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On 2 May, we will be continuing our DESIGN INSIGHTS event series as part of Berlin Design Week. Our guests are Jakob Lehr and Jan Hillmann-Regett, founders and owners of the design office mattership, who will present the E-Bike-City project (ETH Zurich) and ask: How good can it get?
The vision: The inclusive city of tomorrow dedicates 50 % of all streets to micromobility, such as two-wheelers and pedestrians. The two designers will provide practical insights into communicating this radical research project and report on how the joyful collaboration between design and research enables social discussion, conviction, and concrete change.
IDZ Event DESIGN INSIGHTS #3 E-Bike-City
feldfünf, Fromet-und-Moses-Mendelssohn-Platz 7-8 | 10969 Berlin (Google Maps)
2 May, 2024
Admission from 5:30 pm, start 6 pm
The lecture evening will be held in German, admission is free. As the number of seats is limited, please register in advance.
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Benita Braun-Feldweg
bf award 2024
The application deadline for the bf award is 15 April. The object of the competition is the critical examination of current design topics in written form. It is named after the industrial designer Wilhelm Braun-Feldweg, who significantly contributed to the professionalization of the design discipline in Germany.
Experience One
EO Day “NextGen CX. Leading through AI”
Under the motto “NextGen CX. Leading through AI,” EO Day 2024, which will take place on 25 April in Stuttgart, will present the future of customer interaction, characterized by German precision and leading AI innovations. AI’ Made in Germany’ will revolutionize the next generation of customer experience. Participation is free of charge but limited to 150 participants.
medianet berlinbrandenburg e.V.
Joint stand at the OMR Festival 2024
Once again this year, medianet will be making a joint appearance for the Berlin-Brandenburg region at the OMR in Hamburg. Eight companies from our region will have the opportunity to take part in the trade fair at a low cost and benefit from numerous services.
Scholz & Volkmer
see-Conference 2024
Gaining knowledge through visualization is the core of the see-Conference at the Kulturzentrum Schlachthof Wiesbaden e.V., one of the largest design conferences in Germany with over 800 participants. Since 2006, it has been dedicated to data and information visualization, and increasingly in the context of sustainable concepts, because only good staging makes social truths visible amidst the flood of information. Get your tickets now for April 6 and 7! There is a discount for our members. Please contact us if you are interested.
SIBB
Organization in times of AI
Gain insights into fundraising, bootstrapping, and the art of personal branding from a leading expert in startup development and technology. On 5 April, Vanessa Fischer, a pioneer in integrating AI into business practices, will speak on “Organization in times of AI—how efficient can we become as founders?” as part of the “Ask Female Founders” series. Click here to register.
Smyrna Design
Survey
The Berlin start-up Smyrna Design will soon launch an innovative compact kitchen that has been nominated for the UX Design Awards. The highlight is a hidden induction hob that can be used both as a worktop and for cooking. Before the kitchen goes into production, feedback is collected in a survey. We would be delighted if you would take part. It will take about 15 minutes to complete.
weDesign
First standard good balance sheet
wir Design is on its way to becoming a certified Economy for the Common Good company: After months of intensive work on the standard good balance sheet, the team has submitted the report with the 20 common good topics to the external auditor via goodbalancer.org.
Dear IDZ members: Send us your news – we will happily publish it here!
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Alte Nationalgalerie
Caspar David Friedrich: Infinite Landscapes
To mark the 250th anniversary of Caspar David Friedrich’s birth, the Alte Nationalgalerie is showing the exhibition “Infinite Landscapes.” From 19 April to 4 August, 60 paintings and 50 drawings from Germany and abroad, including world-famous icons, will be on display.
Berlin Brandenburg Innovation Award 2024
The Berlin Brandenburg Innovation Award 2024 application phase runs from 15 April to 8 July. Launched in 1984 by the Berlin Senate Department for Economics, the award has served as an instrument for the networked development of the capital region since German reunification. Every year, up to five prize winners selected by an independent jury of experts receive 15,000 euros each.
Museum Barberini, Potsdam
Modigliani. Modern Gazes
Amedeo Modigliani was a European artist in the broadest and most innovative sense. At the beginning of the 20th century, he positioned himself as a pioneer of modernism, a time of formal dissolution, abstraction, and misogyny. The exhibition “Modigliani. Modern Gazes” at the Museum Barberini, from 27 April to 18 August, brings together around 100 works. It extends the view beyond Paris and looks at his work from a European perspective.
Silent Green
Pictoplasma Conference Berlin
May 1-5 marks Pictoplasma’s twentieth anniversary. The leading platform for modern drawing design and art worldwide promotes the interdisciplinary discussion and development of a new visual vocabulary. This includes illustration, animation, games, interactive design, and various urban and graphic art forms.
Various locations
Ticket B: Guided tour Brutalism in Berlin
Ticket B offers a new architectural tour of Brutalism in Berlin—rebellious, autonomous, monumental, and magical. The brutalist buildings of the post-war period, characterized by the material concrete, have an incredible radiance. Three extraordinary buildings await you on the tour, which will now take place regularly once a month and offer exclusive insights.
Various locations
Berlin Design Week
From 27 April to 5 May, designers, institutions, and companies will present visionary concepts and exhibitions at the BERLIN DESIGN WEEK and will participate live in talks and networking events.
Various locations
European Arts and Crafts Days
From 5 to 7 April, exhibition spaces, workshops, and studios will once again open their doors for the European Days of Arts and Crafts (ETAK): this weekend, Berlin artisans and designers invite you to take a look behind the scenes and get to know the diversity of Berlin’s arts and crafts.
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National and International
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Düsseldorf
K20: Hilma af Klint and Wassily Kandinsky
Two great names are regarded as the leading stars of Western abstraction: on one hand, Wassily Kandinsky, the Russian painter, co-founder of the “Blue Rider” in Munich, and teacher at the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau. On the other, Hilma af Klint, the Swedish artist whose visionary work has only recently been rediscovered and has been inspiring a large audience ever since. Until 11 August, the works of af Klint and Kandinsky will be brought together for the first time in a comprehensive exhibition at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen.
Frankfurt a. M.
Schirn Kunsthalle: The Culture
On its 50th birthday, the SCHIRN is dedicating a large, interdisciplinary exhibition to hip-hop and its profound influence on contemporary art and culture in our society. Based on hip-hop’s origins in the USA but focusing on art and music from the last 20 years, the exhibition will present over 100 paintings, photographs, sculptures, videos, fashion, and vinyl by internationally renowned contemporary artists. THE CULTURE runs until 26 May.
Hamburg
MK&G: Water Pressure
Whether too much or too little, clean or polluted, water is one of humanity’s most significant challenges. Already, 40% of the world’s population is affected by water scarcity, and this situation is set to worsen due to man-made climate change. “Water Pressure. Designing for the Future”—an exhibition by MK&G and Jane Withers Studio—takes a global perspective until 13 October.
Milan
Fondazione Prada: Miranda July
“Miranda July: New Society” is the first solo museum exhibition dedicated to Miranda July’s work. The exhibition, which runs until 14 October, spans three decades, from the early 1990s to the present day, and includes early short films, performances, and multimedia installations. The exhibition premieres F.A.M.I.L.Y (Falling Apart Meanwhile I Love You), a multi-channel video installation created by July in collaboration with seven strangers via Instagram.
Milan
Milan Design Week
From 15 April to 21, Salone del Mobile and Fuorisalone will once again attract professionals, designers, and enthusiasts from all over the world. Milan Design Week transforms Milan into a stage for presenting the latest furniture design and interior architecture trends.
Paris
Bourse De Commerce: To Breathe - Constellation
As part of the exhibition “Le monde comme il va” at the Bourse De Commerce, South Korean artist Kimsooja is presenting her spectacular work “To Breathe—Constellation” until 2 September. The artwork, an expansive mirror on the floor of the museum’s rotunda, distorts Tadao Ando’s surrounding architecture and creates the impression of a sky beneath our feet.
Paris
Musée du Luxembourg: MATCH. Design & Sport
The Musée du Luxembourg is best known for its exhibitions of historical paintings. However, on the occasion of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, Chris Dercon asked Konstantin Grcic to develop a curatorial concept on the theme of sport and design. The result, the exhibition “MATCH. Design & Sport - A History Looking to the Future,” can be seen in Paris until 11 August.
Weil am Rhein
Vitra Museum: Transform
Energy is the central driving force of our society: energy is political, invisible, and omnipresent. All buildings, infrastructures, and products for the generation, distribution, and use of energy are designed by people. Design, therefore, plays a vital role in the current energy transition. The exhibition “Transform! Designing the Future of Energy” is dedicated to the transformation of the energy sector from a design perspective until 1 September.
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Trade Fairs and Conferences
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